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“It was almost like we were canoeing through molasses.”
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“At one point, this one couple was sitting on their porch with guns daring us to step on the grass.”
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Stories to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
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“We were the luckiest of the unlucky.”
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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

Listen stories from StoryCorps Historias honoring the contributions, achievements, and lived experiences of Latinx people across the US.

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Stories to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Stories to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
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"They said this is the place where you're born, so no matter where you end, this is where you began."
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"They said this is the place where you're born, so no matter where you end, this is where you began."
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A Mother's Promise
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A Mother's Promise
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Mi Abuela Panchita

Mi Abuela Panchita

Get to Know StoryCorps

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An Introduction to StoryCorps from our Founder
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Stories to Lift Your Spirit

Stories of School and Learning

With school back in session, listen to a few of our participants as they share what education has meant for them.

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Making It

Making It

Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda tells his former teacher, Alex Fernandez, about his clever money-making endeavors as a kid in Chicago's Little Village.
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Lessons Learned
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Lessons Learned

After the difficult experience of helping integrate a Tennessee high school in 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers succeeding in spite of some teachers, and because of others.
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“I think you should get half my diploma.”

“I think you should get half my diploma.”

Cole Phillips lost his vision just months before starting high school. As a freshman, he met paraprofessional Rugenia Keefe — or Miss Ru — who attended class with him for the next four years. Shortly before graduating, Cole interviewed Miss Ru using StoryCorps Connect.
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."
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"I didn't think I would ever tell a teacher..."

Aaron remembers when he first shared with his teacher, Celeste-Davis Carr, that he was homeless.